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> New York has 955,437 empty houses ... 4th behind Florida, California, and Texas. Take away renting out houses, short-term or otherwise, and sell those houses to people who don't have a first house, the crisis would away. It's simply greed.

But not this particular greed - only. Maybe not even mostly. Whatever (temp) relief would be found by (permanently) forcing owners of empty dwellings to divest - that relief would be quickly overrun by the issues of an overly-constrained housing supply.

> Take away renting out houses,

I'd be homeless.



There are ways that we as a society could implement where you would outright own that house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Reform_Movement




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